IN response to the letter from S Unsworth (Letters, June 2), the comments made about the behaviour of disabled drivers in supermarket car parks were insulting and revealed a real lack of understanding.

I have a disabled daughter aged 12 and confined to a wheelchair. Whenever we go to the supermarket, we head for the disabled parking spaces. On most occasions these are full and many of the cars' occupants are not disabled.

This happens everywhere -- in town centre car parks, even at hospitals. A disabled person in a wheelchair needs a wide space to enable transfer from car to chair and vice-versa and a carer carrying out the transfer can injure their back if a wide space is not available -- as I have found out on numerous occasions.

I also have a baby daughter and, though shopping with a young child can be problematic, I can assure readers that it is a breeze compared to the difficulties I face when visiting a supermarket with my elder daughter.

A young child does not need to have the door open fully to be lifted in and out of the car. I would advise S Unsworth to show understanding towards wheelchair-users if they are parked in 'parent and child' spaces and to write to local supermarket managers to ask what they intend to do about the problem.

It is most unfair to state that the disabled are "lazy and don't give a hoot about anyone else."

S EDEN, Ridgway Avenue, Blackburn.